DUSHANBE, July 6, Asia-Plus -- A five-day training seminar formally titled “Control and Integrity” ended at the resort facility Khoja Obigarm in the Varzob district yesterday. 

The seminar focused on issues related to accountability and transparency of Tajikistan’s public management system.  

Participants of the seminar staged by the UNDP Country Office in Tajikistan included representatives from various profile committees of Tajikistan’s lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of parliament, chief prosecutor’s office, state finance control committee and other agencies.  

The seminar also considered issues related to planning, distribution and control of implementation of the national budget and fight against corruption.   Participants in the seminar worked out mechanisms of parliament’s control over implementation of the national budget, and mechanisms of interaction between the lower house and inspection agencies.  

Participants in the seminar consider that introduction of three-stage audit, which will include internal, external and parliamentary audit, will provide supremacy of law and facilitate reduction in corruption.  

Telling the seminar, Sharif Mulloyev, Deputy Chairman of the State Finance Control Committee, said, “The main thins is that these inspections should not be duplicated.” 

Ms. Gulchehra Bozorova, Chairperson of the Majlisi Namoyandagon Committee for Economics, Finance, Budget and Taxes, considers that before submitting the national budget bill for consideration to parliament they should thoroughly analyze the implementation and provision of funds.  

For his part, Sharif Mulloyev noted that the State Finance Control Committee presented all reports on its activity and the implementation of the national budget on the results of certain period.  “Unfortunately, this connection is one-sided, and parliament should consider this issue,” Mulloyev said.  

The seminar participants spoke for setting up a special commission that would coordinate work of parliament and inspection agencies of the country.